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Psychiatric Hospital Bed Numbers and Prison Population Sizes in 26 European Countries: A Critical Reconsideration of the Penrose Hypothesis

BACKGROUND: Recently, there has been a revived interest in the validity of the Penrose hypothesis, which was originally postulated over 75 years ago. It suggests an inverse relationship between the numbers of psychiatric hospital beds and the sizes of prison population. This study aims to investigat...

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Autores principales: Blüml, Victor, Waldhör, Thomas, Kapusta, Nestor D., Vyssoki, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26529102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142163